4/14/2009 @ 6:00PM

In Depth: America's Best Baseball Stadiums

Methodology: For affordability, we used Team Marketing’s 2009 Fan Cost Index; for accessibility, each ballpark was graded based on the number of different transportation options available; for food, we used ratings from Food On Foot Tours; for intangibles, we polled baseball experts Cory Munsey, Paul Suppes, Michael Shapiro, Philip Bess and Glen Waggoner; for fan participation, we measured each stadium’s average attendance as a percentage of capacity over the past three years (with new parks such as Citi Field and Yankee Stadium, we used the three-year attendance averages of the teams’ previous homes). In each category the teams were ranked from one to 30, with rankings converted to letter grades. Each grade tier was extended, where necessary, to account for ties, and a bell curve was applied in categories where rankings were bunched closely together.

28. Tropicana Field

Team: Tampa Bay Rays

Intangibles: C

Fan Participation: C

Accessibility: B-

Affordability: B+

Food: C

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